Hardware Wallets in 2026: The Chip Held, Everything Around It Broke
Hardware Wallets in 2026: The Chip Held, Everything Around It Broke Keystone will destroy 18,835 unsold wallets after an attacker stole the factory key that proves its devices are genuine. No funds lost so far. We counted 30 hardware wallet incidents this year. Not one loss came from a cracked secure chip, yet about $530M still left through code, retail chains and people. A 2021 Coldcard firmware bug made seeds guessable: $114.7M in BTC swept from July 30. Ledgers from reseller CryptoBilis carried a spy implant: about $102M by on-chain estimates. The biggest theft, $282M in LTC and BTC, ca…
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